Cabinet reshuffle will take two days - Sources
Photo: Yulia Svyrydenko, First Vice Prime Minister (Vitalii Nosach, RBC-Ukraine)
Large-scale reshuffles in the Cabinet of Ministers are planned to take place within two days. They are likely to happen as soon as this week, according to sources and Member of Parliament Oleksii Honcharenko on Telegram.
According to the RBC-Ukraine’s sources in parliament, there are no government reshuffles on tomorrow’s agenda. They plan to address these matters on Wednesday and Thursday, July 16–17.
Honcharenko, for his part, clarified that ministerial dismissals are already scheduled for Wednesday.
At the same time, he said that appointments and voting in the Rada (the unicameral parliament of Ukraine) for new ministers are planned for Thursday.
Reshuffles in the Cabinet of Ministers
Just yesterday, July 13, RBC-Ukraine sources reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decided to appoint First Vice Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko as prime minister.
At the same time, according to sources, the current head of the Cabinet, Denys Shmyhal, will become the Minister of Defense.
Already today, July 14, Zelenskyy announced that he offered Svyrydenko the position of prime minister.
Meanwhile, last week, the head of state indicated that the new Ukrainian ambassador to the United States might be Defense Minister Rustem Umerov.
